John Boy Saint

The one thing Reading will do is come out and play its in their make up, it is also in NA's blueprint to come out and play and not to park the bus. We play so much better against teams who play this way, and with MPs style of hunting down teams it will either be a cagey draw or a v Norwich style 4-5 goal fest. Probably a bit of a Damp squib versus the big Nigel Adkins v Southampton build up on Sky.

Nothing will ever change with such a narrow selection policy, players from Citeh Manure Liverpool & Chelski only last night, teams rammed full of foreign very expensive players, very expensive because they are the best in that position that could be bought for the Mickey Mouse money that was avalable. Strip away that lustre and the English players are really just glue joining all the bits together in those 4 teams. Taking away the Saints tinted specs a week ago last Saturday a team containing 7 English players made an expensive team in Liverpool look very ordinary. I don't want the bulk of the Saints team picked for England thus putting them in the shop window but there must be other players from outside the usual teams who could play in those positions questioned above very easily. Actually for overseas coaches in these days of TV dominating football, it must be so easy to shut down England as they get to see most of those players every chuffin week on TV.Still nowt will happen, everyone could see how last night would pan out, everyone except those directly involved and paid very handsomely for it too.

They do move the ball well going forwards, but then when you are a small nation you pick your team from the best of what is available not just from 4 teams. Pinball goal that has been on the cards for a while.

Sadly: read somewhere and tested Botty Coughs in an aircraft cabin do not smell!??!

All a bit "no sh1T Shurlock" that list most folks who attend and watch football can be hardly surprised at that list and what it equates to in England performances. Agreed even with Saints tinted specs a tad harsh on Wayne Bridge, considering he must be a similar age to Ashley Cole and not only ended up playing his understudy Internationally but no sooner were his feet under the table at Chelsea but Cole then moved in.

Funny that I had a Skate mate at School back in the late 70s, we got on well until Football popped up on the agenda then it got a bit niggly. The one thing I did respect him for, or maybe admire, both his and his Dads dedication to go to all the P*mpey home games travelling from Tadley in north Hampshire to p*rtsmouth on the back of his Dads Honda 90 moped!! I went to a reunion a few years back walked through the door and the first person I see is Phil and then was subjected to 2-3 minutes of Skate abuse!...................... Yeah nice to see you too!!

Recall Claire Balding being seen a couple of times under the Itchen a few years back, having a half time smoko when you could do such a thing.

FA Cup semis and Final, then Champions League Final.

You Winkle! Ivanovic is a bigger liability than Jos in front of his own goal (sorry Jos). Jeez when are people going to wise up to the fact that we are no longer a chuffin charity, £7m for Clyne to Chelsea would be daylight robbery put a 1 or even a 2 in front of that and you are closer to the mark. Anyway Chelsea aren't looking at him: he's bloody English!!

It's a Gentlemans Club Mike Bassett England Manager made in 2001 is stuffed full of the truisms that still exist today. Needs a revolutionary in the position but that will never happen in such a comfy set up.

Enjoy!!!???!!!! My toes are still curled, and that funny feeling you get in a certain place has just passed! I say Sod that!!

That's him out with Ricketts or Consumption for the next games then

As always it's a very nice little clique, with no imagination. Most players outside the top 6 must be scratching their heads trying figure out how they might get into the England squad, to be honest they have probably given up. Especially when Carrick was being talked of as playing centre back in place of the beloved Rio. Roy sat in SMS the other day must have very deep down must have been disappointed at the performance of the 4 nailed on England players who didn't really get a look in against a Saints team containing 7 English players. Cleverley & Wellbeck play in a team that plays to a disciplined system, Rickie Lambert could play for Manchester United and score for fun once he had adapted to it. If there were no external pressures on the England team, you could have put a team made up of English Championship players against San Marino and they would have scored more than 8, mainly because of the passion they would have shown to wear the England shirt.

Clive Tyldsley was running through various players Oxo, Lescott, I think Cleverley he said have played 3 times for their club since January: sorry but that is an F'ing appalling selection process.

Wow some of you folks are pure infraction Magnets. I have spat my dummy out a few times in some of my posts and yet still haven't lost my cherry. Too F u C k I n g nice; that's my problem! Kno3jockeys the lot of you!! ​Was that a bit too obvious?!

That sounds like a good start to a book in his genre!!

Looking at the BBC News website and saw that James Herbert died at his house in Sussex. I never really enjoyed reading books that much, wasn't that I couldn't read just couldn't be bothered. Then whilst recovering from an operation my Uncle gave me The Survivor which at 19 became the first "grown up book" I had actually read cover to cover and enjoyed. I suppose (saucy stuff aside) the fact that all of his books were based in real places in the UK you could picture the scenes as you read. I read everything he wrote, apart from Ash which is sat on the side waiting to be, so for me James Herbert encouraged me to enjoy reading books. Thank you God bless and Rest in Peace.

With Pulis publically reported at looking seriously at his position at Stoke, with a chance of joining his son in the US, Stoke could free fall if he doesn't put a lid on suggestions....................... We beat Chelsea and Stoke lose we will be alongside them in the table.

Seems a good set up and whilst Saints aren't doing the best in the Elite group, they earned the right to be there from the first phase. League 1 & 2 have some interesting teams in it. Whilst aiming for the Elite league from the off is the obvious objective, when you look at Final Stage where Elite position 2 & 3 play each other in the Semi Final, and the Winner of the Elite League faces the winner of the game between the winners of leagues 1 & 2 in the Semi (nasty Banana skin there) you wonder if there was any merit of not worrying about the first phase to extend your chances of winning outright through the final phase. A bit like Saints staying in the old Southern league (because the expense of travelling North every other week would have bankrupted them) and being a massive fish in a small pond as a result, beating top teams when they met in various competitions. With the above in mind, In reality it is good that we are playing the game in the spirit it was intended to achieve the aims set out in the first place. Man City and Chelsea don't look too clever though, not a surprise though with the cheque book recruitment they employ.

He must have been impressed at a team containing 7 English players, playing with such fluidity.

You missed my point, the translator had just started translating the question. But Mo cut the translator short with the answer for the translator to give.

Viva la revolution against the Fashionistas!!

He speaks English, it's a convenient smokescreen to buy him time with the media. Post match on Solent the other week he was asked a question the interpreter started........er um Translating.... and he cut him short with a correction and then answered for the translator to reply.

Seemed a bit more than a gashed knee, from where I was sat facing him in the Chapel. The physio appeared to be checking his breathing feeling his chest. Unless he is queezy at the sight of blood.

I too thought it sounded great, especially just before the final whistle when all the stands were singing in unison, rather than the "Row, Row, Row your boat" staggered singing that often takes over.